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Problem

For your first essay, you will write a personal narrative essay responding to one of the following prompts:

Option I: Write about how someone else's actions had a negative effect on you.

Option II: Write about your first day on the job/at a new school/in a new town or place.

Option III: Write about a lesson you learned that changed your life.

1) Your essay should be a true story about your life experiences, which means you may use first person pronouns in this essay (I, me, my, myself, etc.).

2) You should not include any outside sources in this essay, so you will not need a works cited page

Although narrative essays tell a story, the events alone will not be enough to organize your essay. You will need a thesis statement. Your thesis statement could be the lesson that you learned from the event.

This example is a true story from my childhood.

The year that I turned five, I stopped believing in Santa. My father was heartbroken that I was growing up so fast, so he wanted to extend the magic a bit longer. I wanted a toy piano that looked like a real piano in miniature. I talked about the toy every day, and I was so disappointed it wasn't under the tree. I tried to look happy with the Barbie that I received, but my dad could see my sadness. He smiled and said, "maybe Santa forgot something on the roof." We went outside, and when I looked up, my piano was sitting on the roof. My eyes widened, and I was delighted. My father grabbed a ladder and retrieved my gift. At the time, I didn't think about my father's job as a roofer; it didn't cross my young mind. Years later, I realized that my father got up early to place that piano on the roof. My father did something exceptional for me that day, and he made me believe in magic a little bit longer, which is a precious gift that I still cherish to this day (My thesis).